Category: Jesus
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Hosanna! Jesus Saves!
Looking up the present-day Mount of Olives. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Hosanna in the highest!” Matthew 21:9 Passover was just six days away. Mary anointed the feet of Jesus…
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Are You At the Feet of Jesus?
Six days before Jesus’ last Passover, Lazarus, Martha, and Mary enjoyed a dinner with Jesus in Bethany. Imagine Jesus’ thoughts as He sat with Lazarus. Lazarus, a beloved friend. Lazarus, the one who became sick and died. Lazarus, the dead man Jesus called to walk out of the tomb (John 11). Lazarus, the brother who…
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God’s Love Acts: 25 Ways + MORE
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 The Bible tells us that God loves the world, that He is the world’s Creator, and that He delights in His creation, especially in the people He created.…
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The Key to the Christian Walk
When someone asks you “”Where do you live?” How do you answer? I usually say, “Beaumont, California” or my subdivision if I’m not in Beaumont. I don’t say if I live in a house, an apartment, or on the street. Pilate asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” but Jesus gave no reply in John 19:9.…
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12 Quotes from Christ the Healer
F.F. Bosworth’s Christ the Healer is truth for today. Keith and I read this book after the many times that I had been prayed for and anointed with oil for healing from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. After Keith read this book, he told me that he was going to preach a sermon after the…
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3 Reasons to Love Others
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved,…
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A Light Shines in the Darkness This Christmas for You
A Light Shines in the Darkness The Life was the Light of Men And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 He came to walk among us, share the Kingdom of God, heal the…
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2 Christmas Gifts
The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35 “What? The Holy Spirit who overshadowed Mount Sinai when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments is going to overshadow me? I’m just a…
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Napalm Girl’s Fire Road to Hope
Keith and I just returned from Vietnam and Cambodia. Fire Road and Kim Phuc Phan Thi were on my mind the entire trip. The Anti-American War (the Vietnamese name for the Vietnam War) is ever present there and in the scars of Kim Phuc. Yet, the same spirit that Kim Phuc demonstrates in Fire Road was apparent…
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Walking in The Holy Spirit’s Stunning Power
The Beautiful Gate or Eastern Gate where the lame beggar sat was the largest gate to the temple and the most beautiful. In Hebrew, the name of the gate means “Gate of Mercy.” It took 20 men to move the gate. The gate faces the Mount of Olives across the Kidron Valley. It was sealed…